Crown Estate designates Celtic Sea wind energy areas

DUBLIN, Ireland—Source Energie has welcomed The UK Crown Estate’s publication of five broad “Areas of Search” for floating offshore wind energy generation projects in the Celtic Sea off western Britain, including opportunities for low carbon green hydrogen production.

The intention is that these areas will deliver 4 GW of floating offshore wind energy by 2035.

The Crown Estate plans a competitive tender process in mid-2023, with a focus on larger, 1-GW-scale projects that could be developed in phases, with spin-off investment in the supply chain and infrastructure, attracting new industry and jobs to the regions close to the new developments.

Source Energie aims to deploy Dolphyn technology to produce large-scale low-carbon green hydrogen from floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea, with the hydrogen sent directly to shore via a pipeline.

Dolphyn would be used to develop the 300-MW Dylan wind farm by 2028, with a planned expansion to gigawatt scale in the 2030s. In addition, the company plans a separate gigawatt scale wind farm to the south, named Myrddin, in a similar phased approach, and also employing Dolphyn technology.

The company welcomes the alignment between The Crown Estate’s Search Areas 1 and 3 with its Dylan/Myrddin development areas, with Crown Estate announcement confirming that both locations offer good energy generating conditions.

08.15.2022